National Credit Amendment Bill

National Credit Amendment Bill

The National Credit Amendment Bill, approved by the National Council of Provinces (NCOP), will see the screws tightened on reckless lending. The NCOP bill, which also seeks to provide uniformity in the application of affordability assessment regulation, was passed on...
More needs to be done for small business

More needs to be done for small business

More work needs to be done to increase the number of small and medium businesses, while more focus should be put on improving South Africa’s investment prospects, President Jacob Zuma said on Wednesday. Speaking at the second annual Premier Business Awards ceremony on...
Retirement reforms to help consumers

Retirement reforms to help consumers

  The National Treasury has published two papers on retirement reforms and non-retirement savings to help consumers get maximum returns when they retire without their savings being eaten up by schemes’ charges. The publishing of the two papers follows an...

SKA gets R1.7bn British injection

Science and Technology Minister Derek Hanekom has welcomed a UK contribution of R1.7 billion to the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) project. Implementation of Phase 1 “The significance of this announcement … is in the impetus that this provides to implementation of...